Nigeria is seeking to amend a law on deep offshore oil exploration and drilling, aiming to increase government revenue from crude sales when prices exceed $20 a barrel, the country’s oil minister said on Wednesday.
Nigeria’s government relies on oil for around two-thirds of its revenue and Africa’s largest economy is still largely dependent on crude production despite the current administration’s attempts to diversify away from the industry. Those efforts have yielded few results, economic data shows.
Under the deep offshore act, there was a provision in 1993 that allowed for the government to charge oil companies a premium for the administration’s share of sales once the price of crude exceeded $20 a barrel.
The Nigerian government has not enforced that provision but could now look to amend the law to enable it to do so, Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, the oil minister, told reporters after a cabinet meeting in the capital of Abuja.
“The net effect for us is close to $2 billion extra revenue for the federation,” Kachikwu said, adding that the petroleum ministry was working with the attorney general to look at the legislation.
“From 1993 to now, cumulatively, we have lost a total of $21 billion just because government did not act. We did not exercise it,” he said of the law, without explaining what amendment was needed.
The oil minister noted it would be difficult to recoup past losses, given oil companies that were not paying the government a premium for sales over $20 a barrel were not breaking the law.
However, the administration will explore whether there is an opportunity to get back some of the money, Kachikwu added.
The government is also pushing to have Nigeria’s three main oil refineries up and running at full capacity by 2019, the oil minister said.
Despite producing vast quantities of crude oil, Nigeria exports almost all of its crude for refining overseas before paying to have the final fuel products imported, a drain on foreign currency reserves.
The administration hopes to raise $2 billion for the refurbishment of the refineries from the private sector, and have them producing around 425,000 barrels of oil per day by the end of 2019, said Kachikwu.
Nigeria’s reliance on oil sales led to it falling into recession last year largely due to low crude prices and attacks by militants on energy facilities in the southern Niger Delta production heartland.
The OPEC member emerged from the recession - its first in 25 years - in the second quarter of 2017 as a result of higher oil receipts.

Three indigenous oil and gas exploration firms -- Optimum, Afren and Lekoil -- yesterday announced a significant oil find in Oil Prospecting Lease, OPL310, offshore Nigeria.
The latest find, which has great potential to yield commercial oil, was made at Ogo-1 well after drilling 10,402 feet. The discovery has the potential to significantly boost Nigeria's oil reserve which currently stands at 37 billion barrels.
Afren Plc said it had drilled a well to a total measured depth of 10,518ft (10,402ft true vertical depth subsea), and had encountered a gross hydrocarbon section of 524ft, with 216ft of net stacked pay.
The firm added that the well was initially targeted to yield 78 million barrels of oil equivalent but based on evidence to date, targeted resources were likely to be significantly in excess of previous estimates.
The company said further evaluation using wireline log analysis was currently underway prior to extending the well to a total measured depth of 11,800ft (11,684ft true vertical depth subsea) to target further high potential zones.
"The Ogo-1 discovery, testing a four-way dipclosed structure in the Turonian, Cenomanian and Albian sandstone reservoirs, confirms the extension of the same Cretaceous sandstones that have yielded other significant discoveries along the West AfricanTransform Margin," the company said in a statement.
It added that: "Following the completion of drilling operations at Ogo-1, the partners intend to drill a planned side-track, Ogo-1 ST, which will test a new play of stratigraphically trapped sediments that pinch-out onto the basement high targeting 124 mmboe of gross P50 prospective resources."
The completion of exploration and eventual commercial production would be beneficial to not only the Federal Government but also other stakeholders, including Optimum, Afren and Lekoil that have different participating and economic interests in the oil block.
Specifically, participating interest in the block is Optimum on 60 per cent, Afren on 22.86 per cent and Lekoil on 17.14 per cent. Economic interest is Optimum on 30 per cent, Afren on 40 per cent and Lekoil on 30 per cent.
The Chief Executive of Afren Plc, Mr. OsmanShahenshah, said the discovery of oil in the Ogo-1 well opened up a new oil basin in an under-explored region and represented a possible extension of the West African Transform Margin.
According to Shahenshah, based on evidence to date, targeted resources are likely to be significantly in excess of previous estimates, with some highpotential zones still to be drilled.
He said: "We look forward to working with our partners to realise the full potential of Ogo and our additional prospects on the license.
"The Ogo-1 exploration success follows a series of recent discoveries, Okoro Field Extension, Ebok NorthFaultBlock and Okwok in Nigeria and Simrit-2 and Simrit-3 on the Ain Sifni Block in the Kurdistan region of Iraq."
Nigeria has not made significant oil and gas reserves in recent times as a result of low investment which is said to be a direct function of outdated legislations in the industry.
For instance, the Petroleum IndustryBill, PIB, targeted to make the industry more attractive to local and foreign investors, has been with the National Assembly in the last five years.
Consequently, many investors have gone to invest in other countries that offer competitive legislations, incentives and policies.
A top official of Stumberger confirmed at a recent industry conference in Lagos that many nations in the Gulf of Guinea, especially Angola, have attracted a lot of investments in the past few years.
This, according to him, has culminated in the making of commercial oil and gas finds that are capable of boosting reserves and ranking of Angola as a major producer.
The official tasked stakeholders, especially legislators, to make progress in order to complete work on the important bill targeted at restructuring the nation's oil and gas industry as well as attracting more investments to boost reserves as well as production capacity.
However, a Lagosbased lawyer, Mr. Emeka Okwuosa, said the new PIB was a step in the right direction, a watershed reform that would change the landscape of the oil and gas industry in Nigeria.
Okwuosa said the future was promising because the new PIB would be a good and excellent law, open up investment opportunities, unbundle the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, for better performance and result, and create a transparent, accountable and corruptfree energy regime.

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They are virtual cities stuck in the middle of some of the most dangerous seas on earth. Life on them is hard and fraught with danger from calamitous fires a.
Animation of deepwater drilling.
Drilling wells is one of the most important activities in the process of finding hydrocarbon reservoirs and producing oil and gas from these reservoirs to me.
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Piracy in Nigeria - People & Power
The event followed a now familiar pattern: a small convoy of dusty 4x4 vehicles drove on to the edge of the airstrip at Galkayo in Puntland, north-central Somalia; armed security guards took up watchful positions nearby and a number of bemused-looking men stepped gingerly from the cars and lined up to have their photographs taken by the media.
On this occasion there were 11 of them; all had been hostages until that morning. They were sailors from a Malaysian cargo vessel that had been hijacked by Somali pirates a few years ago and held until a ransom was paid for their release.
One of them gave a brief account of what had happened. "On November 26, 2010 our ship was hijacked in the Indian Ocean. Their demand was 20 million. After that, they threatened the owner. You now increase money or we will shoot the crew. The owner didn't increase the money and then one Indian is shot with just three bullets. Then they hit us and tortured us. Tell your family to bring us money, otherwise we will kill you!"
The crew had been held for three and a half years but they were the fortunate ones. Five of their crew mates had died in that time. Now the survivors were going home and a UN plane with two envoys on board was flying in to see them to safety.
Such scenes have become relatively commonplace in Galkayo in recent times. Eighty percent of global trade is carried by sea and Somalia sits on a key maritime route linking Europe and Asia. More than 18,000 ships pass its shores every year. Over the past decade, Somali pirates, often former fishermen whose traditional livelihoods have been destroyed by foreign trawlers and toxic waste dumping, have attacked more than 300 vessels and kidnapped 700 people.
Faced with such a threat, the international community responded aggressively. In 2008, European states, the US and others began sending naval forces to these seas. They are still there today - warships, planes and helicopters patrolling thousands of square miles and doing a fair job of keeping the hijackers at bay. The UN and others have also played an increasing role in facilitating negotiations for the release of hostages - such as those set free at places such as Galkayo - for whose liberty large ransoms have been paid.
But if the problem is now slowly coming under control in Somalia, the same cannot be said for other parts of the world where piracy is on the increase. Lawlessness, desperation, poverty, greed and even political radicalism have brought the phenomenon to the waters of South America, Asia and, perhaps most aggressively, to West Africa.
In an effort to understand the reasons why, Bertrand Monnet, a French academic and filmmaker, has been travelling to piracy hot spots around the coast of Africa. In an extraordinary and very tense series of encounters, he came to face to face with heavily armed pirate gangs operating in and around the Niger Delta, where Nigeria's huge offshore oil industry, which employs thousands of expatriates, offers rich ransom pickings. It gradually became clear that piracy in West Africa has many of the same root causes as piracy in Somalia and elsewhere, not least of which is that those who don't share in the benefits and profits of global trade have ever fewer reasons these days to respect the security of those who do.
Source: Al Jazeera
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Amy Jadesimi is the managing director of LADOL, an oil and gas servicing company, based in Africa's most populous nation -- Nigeria.

Petroleum industry in Nigeria

The petroleum industry in Nigeria is the largest on the African continent. As of 2014, Nigeria's petroleum industry contributes about 14% to its economy. Therefore, though the petroleum sector is important, it remains in fact a small part of the country's overall diversified economy.

Offshore drilling

Offshore drilling is a mechanical process where a wellbore is drilled below the seabed. It is typically carried out in order to explore for and subsequently extract petroleum which lies in rock formations beneath the seabed. Most commonly, the term is used to describe drilling activities on the continental shelf, though the term can also be applied to drilling in lakes, inshore waters and inland seas.

Offshore drilling presents environmental challenges, both from the produced hydrocarbons and the materials used during the drilling operation. Controversies include the ongoing US offshore drilling debate.

There are many different types of facilities from which offshore drilling operations take place. These include bottom founded drilling rigs (jackup barges and swamp barges), combined drilling and production facilities either bottom founded or floating platforms, and deepwater mobile offshore drilling units (MODU) including semi-submersibles and drillships. These are capable of operating in water depths up to 3,000 metres (9,800ft). In shallower waters the mobile units are anchored to the seabed, however in deeper water (more than 1,500 metres (4,900ft) the semisubmersibles or drillships are maintained at the required drilling location using dynamic positioning.

Modern-day Nigeria has been the site of numerous kingdoms and tribal states over the millennia. The modern state originated from British colonial rule beginning in the 19th century, and the merging of the Southern Nigeria Protectorate and Northern Nigeria Protectorate in 1914. The British set up administrative and legal structures whilst practising indirect rule through traditional chiefdoms. Nigeria became a formally independent federation in 1960, and plunged into a civil war from 1967 to 1970. It has since alternated between democratically-elected civilian governments and military dictatorships, until it achieved a stable democracy in 1999, with its 2011 presidential elections being viewed as the first to be conducted reasonably freely and fairly.

Nigeria is seeking to amend a law on deep offshore oil exploration and drilling, aiming to increase government revenue from crude sales when prices exceed $20 a barrel, the country’s oil minister said on Wednesday.
Nigeria’s government relies on oil for around two-thirds of its revenue and Africa’s largest economy is still largely dependent on crude production despite the current administration’s attempts to diversify away from the industry. Those efforts have yielded few results, economic data shows.
Under the deep offshore act, there was a provision in 1993 that allowed for the government to charge oil companies a premium for the administration’s share of sales once the price of crude exceeded $20 a barrel.
The Nigerian government has not enforced that provision but could now look to amend the law to enable it to do so, Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, the oil minister, told reporters after a cabinet meeting in the capital of Abuja.
“The net effect for us is close to $2 billion extra revenue for the federation,” Kachikwu said, adding that the petroleum ministry was working with the attorney general to look at the legislation.
“From 1993 to now, cumulatively, we have lost a total of $21 billion just because government did not act. We did not exercise it,” he said of the law, without explaining what amendment was needed.
The oil minister noted it would be difficult to recoup past losses, given oil companies that were not paying the government a premium for sales over $20 a barrel were not breaking the law.
However, the administration will explore whether there is an opportunity to get back some of the money, Kachikwu added.
The government is also pushing to have Nigeria’s three main oil refineries up and running at full capacity by 2019, the oil minister said.
Despite producing vast quantities of crude oil, Nigeria exports almost all of its crude for refining overseas before paying to have the final fuel products imported, a drain on foreign currency reserves.
The administration hopes to raise $2 billion for the refurbishment of the refineries from the private sector, and have them producing around 425,000 barrels of oil per day by the end of 2019, said Kachikwu.
Nigeria’s reliance on oil sales led to it falling into recession last year largely due to low crude prices and attacks by militants on energy facilities in the southern Niger Delta production heartland.
The OPEC member emerged from the recession - its first in 25 years - in the second quarter of 2017 as a result of higher oil receipts.

Nigerian Oil Company Stikes Gold Finds Huge Oil Deposits

Three indigenous oil and gas exploration firms -- Optimum, Afren and Lekoil -- yesterday announced a significant oil find in Oil Prospecting Lease, OPL310, offshore Nigeria.
The latest find, which has great potential to yield commercial oil, was made at Ogo-1 well after drilling 10,402 feet. The discovery has the potential to significantly boost Nigeria's oil reserve which currently stands at 37 billion barrels.
Afren Plc said it had drilled a well to a total measured depth of 10,518ft (10,402ft true vertical depth subsea), and had encountered a gross hydrocarbon section of 524ft, with 216ft of net stacked pay.
The firm added that the well was initially targeted to yield 78 million barrels of oil equivalent but based on evidence to date, targeted resources were likely to be significantly in excess of previous estimates.
The company said further evaluation using wireline log analysis was currently underway prior to extending the well to a total measured depth of 11,800ft (11,684ft true vertical depth subsea) to target further high potential zones.
"The Ogo-1 discovery, testing a four-way dipclosed structure in the Turonian, Cenomanian and Albian sandstone reservoirs, confirms the extension of the same Cretaceous sandstones that have yielded other significant discoveries along the West AfricanTransform Margin," the company said in a statement.
It added that: "Following the completion of drilling operations at Ogo-1, the partners intend to drill a planned side-track, Ogo-1 ST, which will test a new play of stratigraphically trapped sediments that pinch-out onto the basement high targeting 124 mmboe of gross P50 prospective resources."
The completion of exploration and eventual commercial production would be beneficial to not only the Federal Government but also other stakeholders, including Optimum, Afren and Lekoil that have different participating and economic interests in the oil block.
Specifically, participating interest in the block is Optimum on 60 per cent, Afren on 22.86 per cent and Lekoil on 17.14 per cent. Economic interest is Optimum on 30 per cent, Afren on 40 per cent and Lekoil on 30 per cent.
The Chief Executive of Afren Plc, Mr. OsmanShahenshah, said the discovery of oil in the Ogo-1 well opened up a new oil basin in an under-explored region and represented a possible extension of the West African Transform Margin.
According to Shahenshah, based on evidence to date, targeted resources are likely to be significantly in excess of previous estimates, with some highpotential zones still to be drilled.
He said: "We look forward to working with our partners to realise the full potential of Ogo and our additional prospects on the license.
"The Ogo-1 exploration success follows a series of recent discoveries, Okoro Field Extension, Ebok NorthFaultBlock and Okwok in Nigeria and Simrit-2 and Simrit-3 on the Ain Sifni Block in the Kurdistan region of Iraq."
Nigeria has not made significant oil and gas reserves in recent times as a result of low investment which is said to be a direct function of outdated legislations in the industry.
For instance, the Petroleum IndustryBill, PIB, targeted to make the industry more attractive to local and foreign investors, has been with the National Assembly in the last five years.
Consequently, many investors have gone to invest in other countries that offer competitive legislations, incentives and policies.
A top official of Stumberger confirmed at a recent industry conference in Lagos that many nations in the Gulf of Guinea, especially Angola, have attracted a lot of investments in the past few years.
This, according to him, has culminated in the making of commercial oil and gas finds that are capable of boosting reserves and ranking of Angola as a major producer.
The official tasked stakeholders, especially legislators, to make progress in order to complete work on the important bill targeted at restructuring the nation's oil and gas industry as well as attracting more investments to boost reserves as well as production capacity.
However, a Lagosbased lawyer, Mr. Emeka Okwuosa, said the new PIB was a step in the right direction, a watershed reform that would change the landscape of the oil and gas industry in Nigeria.
Okwuosa said the future was promising because the new PIB would be a good and excellent law, open up investment opportunities, unbundle the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, for better performance and result, and create a transparent, accountable and corruptfree energy regime.

4:58

Offshore Oil Rig Jobs, Typical day.

Offshore Oil Rig Jobs, Typical day.

Offshore Oil Rig Jobs, Typical day.

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Ensure you meet the minimum qualifications for employment on almost any oil rig. They are the following:
You are over 18 years of age.
You are very physically fit. You should also be mentally fit. You will be required to pass a physical exam before being hired.
You are a non-smoker, and you can abstain from alcohol during your long 14 to 21 day shifts.
You are willing and able to take on the unusual schedule of an oil rig worker. You should be open to working nights, and you should be able to work many days on end without weekend breaks.
An oil rig is a manned platform used for land or off-shore drilling. An oil rig worker can denote an employee on either platform, responsible for a large number of duties associated with safely drilling for oil. The schedule for most workers consists of working 14 to 21 consecutive days before being given time off. As well as earning a wage, most offshore oil rig workers are provided food and board and some travel expenses. Getting your first job on an oil rig may be the toughest part of the process, because oil rig managers value experience.

8:58

Offshore Nigeria

Offshore Nigeria

Offshore Nigeria

1:44:15

Deep Sea (Offshore) Drilling Oil Well Exploration

Deep Sea (Offshore) Drilling Oil Well Exploration

Deep Sea (Offshore) Drilling Oil Well Exploration

They are virtual cities stuck in the middle of some of the most dangerous seas on earth. Life on them is hard and fraught with danger from calamitous fires a.
Animation of deepwater drilling.
Drilling wells is one of the most important activities in the process of finding hydrocarbon reservoirs and producing oil and gas from these reservoirs to me.
Auxillary Drilling Supervisor, Louise takes us through her daily life onboard the DeepseaMetro I drill ship. Louise overseas the team that make up the drill.

25:01

🇳🇬 Piracy in Nigeria | People & Power

🇳🇬 Piracy in Nigeria | People & Power

🇳🇬 Piracy in Nigeria | People & Power

Piracy in Nigeria - People & Power
The event followed a now familiar pattern: a small convoy of dusty 4x4 vehicles drove on to the edge of the airstrip at Galkayo in Puntland, north-central Somalia; armed security guards took up watchful positions nearby and a number of bemused-looking men stepped gingerly from the cars and lined up to have their photographs taken by the media.
On this occasion there were 11 of them; all had been hostages until that morning. They were sailors from a Malaysian cargo vessel that had been hijacked by Somali pirates a few years ago and held until a ransom was paid for their release.
One of them gave a brief account of what had happened. "On November 26, 2010 our ship was hijacked in the Indian Ocean. Their demand was 20 million. After that, they threatened the owner. You now increase money or we will shoot the crew. The owner didn't increase the money and then one Indian is shot with just three bullets. Then they hit us and tortured us. Tell your family to bring us money, otherwise we will kill you!"
The crew had been held for three and a half years but they were the fortunate ones. Five of their crew mates had died in that time. Now the survivors were going home and a UN plane with two envoys on board was flying in to see them to safety.
Such scenes have become relatively commonplace in Galkayo in recent times. Eighty percent of global trade is carried by sea and Somalia sits on a key maritime route linking Europe and Asia. More than 18,000 ships pass its shores every year. Over the past decade, Somali pirates, often former fishermen whose traditional livelihoods have been destroyed by foreign trawlers and toxic waste dumping, have attacked more than 300 vessels and kidnapped 700 people.
Faced with such a threat, the international community responded aggressively. In 2008, European states, the US and others began sending naval forces to these seas. They are still there today - warships, planes and helicopters patrolling thousands of square miles and doing a fair job of keeping the hijackers at bay. The UN and others have also played an increasing role in facilitating negotiations for the release of hostages - such as those set free at places such as Galkayo - for whose liberty large ransoms have been paid.
But if the problem is now slowly coming under control in Somalia, the same cannot be said for other parts of the world where piracy is on the increase. Lawlessness, desperation, poverty, greed and even political radicalism have brought the phenomenon to the waters of South America, Asia and, perhaps most aggressively, to West Africa.
In an effort to understand the reasons why, Bertrand Monnet, a French academic and filmmaker, has been travelling to piracy hot spots around the coast of Africa. In an extraordinary and very tense series of encounters, he came to face to face with heavily armed pirate gangs operating in and around the Niger Delta, where Nigeria's huge offshore oil industry, which employs thousands of expatriates, offers rich ransom pickings. It gradually became clear that piracy in West Africa has many of the same root causes as piracy in Somalia and elsewhere, not least of which is that those who don't share in the benefits and profits of global trade have ever fewer reasons these days to respect the security of those who do.
Source: Al Jazeera
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Growing Offshore Oil and Gas industry - Part 1

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Life at Shell: Working offshore | Shell Careers

Life at Shell: Working offshore | Shell Careers

Life at Shell: Working offshore | Shell Careers

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2:54

Nigeria's female oil tycoon

Nigeria's female oil tycoon

Nigeria's female oil tycoon

Amy Jadesimi is the managing director of LADOL, an oil and gas servicing company, based in Africa's most populous nation -- Nigeria.

7:09

First E&P nears development phase offshore Nigeria

First E&P nears development phase offshore Nigeria

First E&P nears development phase offshore Nigeria

The chief executive of FirstE&P, Ademola Adeyemi–Bero, says the private oil firm is preparing to development its offshore assets in Nigeria after more than two years of searching for opportunities. First E&P currently has an equity interest in 5 licences (and is operator is 4), but still needs to secure funding before it sees first oil. The two most significant blocks, in shallow water, are “excellent assets” according to the CEO, who is now working with Deutsche Bank to arrange debt and equity-type financing.

2:34

Spill Prevention and Response in the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry

Spill Prevention and Response in the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry

Spill Prevention and Response in the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry

When it comes to the topic of oil spills, preventing them is our number one focus. However, as an industry, we want to collaborate amongst other operators as well as with response organizations to make sure that we have a robust oil spill response regime.
Regularly throughout the year, operators conduct training on oil spill response with our vessel crews and the personnel that work offshore. Synergy is a great opportunity for us to come together and work collaboratively with other operators as well as oil spill response organizations.
Thanks very much for coming to the Synergy oil spill counter-measures exercise today. It’s a really important day for Suncor and all the other operators, and Suncor is hosting this exercise on behalf of Hibernia, Husky, and Statoil.
So, will they do a loop now, we got it in the water there, is that the idea?...Yep. Yeah, so what they’ll do is, the vessel will start to move, that’ll allow the boom to sort of open up and make that nice U-formation. Ah, and then they’ll deploy the skimmer out into the water.
Working collaboratively between the operators helps us ensure that our oil response programs are in place and are effective and that we learn from each other to make sure that best management practices are in place.
The Synergy exercise is important because it demonstrates our ability to deploy the equipment in a safe and effective manner. You don’t deploy oil spill equipment in five minutes. It’s a process that takes time to do it well and to do it properly. But that’s important to make sure that we don’t hurt anyone and that we’re able have equipment that’s going to be capable of responding in a spill.
In addition to demonstrating what we do, it’s also a great way for us to learn and that’s another tool for us to help us identify how we continuously improve our oil spill response capability here on the East coast. So, again, any suggestions you may have, please feel free to pass them along.
Oil spill response is a daily activity for us. Through regular training of vessel crews, maintenance of equipment and exercises and drills, it’s something we do on an ongoing basis to make sure that our people are capable of responding to an offshore spill.

Lagos Nigeria - offshore, video by Croatian maritime officer

Nigeria is seeking to amend a law on deep offshore oil exploration and drilling, aiming to increase government revenue from crude sales when prices exceed $20 a barrel, the country’s oil minister said on Wednesday.
Nigeria’s government relies on oil for around two-thirds of its revenue and Africa’s largest economy is still largely dependent on crude production despite the current administration’s attempts to diversify away from the industry. Those efforts have yielded few results, economic data shows.
Under the deep offshore act, there was a provision in 1993 that allowed for the government to charge oil companies a premium for the administration’s share of sales once the price of crude exceeded $20 a barrel.
The Nigerian government has not enforced that provision but could now look to ...

Nigerian Oil Company Stikes Gold Finds Huge Oil Deposits

Three indigenous oil and gas exploration firms -- Optimum, Afren and Lekoil -- yesterday announced a significant oil find in Oil Prospecting Lease, OPL310, offshore Nigeria.
The latest find, which has great potential to yield commercial oil, was made at Ogo-1 well after drilling 10,402 feet. The discovery has the potential to significantly boost Nigeria's oil reserve which currently stands at 37 billion barrels.
Afren Plc said it had drilled a well to a total measured depth of 10,518ft (10,402ft true vertical depth subsea), and had encountered a gross hydrocarbon section of 524ft, with 216ft of net stacked pay.
The firm added that the well was initially targeted to yield 78 million barrels of oil equivalent but based on evidence to date, targeted resources were likely to be significant...

published: 27 Jun 2013

Offshore Oil Rig Jobs, Typical day.

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Oil Rig Jobs http://www.rigzone.com/oil/jobs/categories/drilling-rig-personnel-3/
Ensure you meet the minimum qualifications for employment on almost any oil rig. They are the following:
You are over 18 years of age.
You are very physically fit. You should also be mentally fit. You will be required to pass a physical exam before being hired.
You are a non-smoker, and you can abstain from alcohol during your long 14 to 21 day shifts.
You are willing and able to take on the unusual schedule of an oil rig worker. You should be open to working nights, and you should be able to work many days on end without weekend breaks.
An oil rig is a manned platform used for land or off-shore drilling. An oil rig worker can den...

published: 05 Feb 2014

Offshore Nigeria

published: 10 Oct 2011

Deep Sea (Offshore) Drilling Oil Well Exploration

They are virtual cities stuck in the middle of some of the most dangerous seas on earth. Life on them is hard and fraught with danger from calamitous fires a.
Animation of deepwater drilling.
Drilling wells is one of the most important activities in the process of finding hydrocarbon reservoirs and producing oil and gas from these reservoirs to me.
Auxillary Drilling Supervisor, Louise takes us through her daily life onboard the DeepseaMetro I drill ship. Louise overseas the team that make up the drill.

published: 28 Nov 2014

🇳🇬 Piracy in Nigeria | People & Power

Piracy in Nigeria - People & Power
The event followed a now familiar pattern: a small convoy of dusty 4x4 vehicles drove on to the edge of the airstrip at Galkayo in Puntland, north-central Somalia; armed security guards took up watchful positions nearby and a number of bemused-looking men stepped gingerly from the cars and lined up to have their photographs taken by the media.
On this occasion there were 11 of them; all had been hostages until that morning. They were sailors from a Malaysian cargo vessel that had been hijacked by Somali pirates a few years ago and held until a ransom was paid for their release.
One of them gave a brief account of what had happened. "On November 26, 2010 our ship was hijacked in the Indian Ocean. Their demand was 20 million. After that, they threatened...

Growing Offshore Oil and Gas industry - Part 1

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On Focus on Ports we focus on Africa's growing offshore Oil and Gas industry. With exploration on the west coast of the continent growing exponentially with indications that Africa's East coast may follow suit, South Africa is strategically positioned to respond to the rig repairs and servicing of off shore oil rigs and drilling equipment. Focus on ports looks at infrastructure and investment needed to respond to this market demand.

published: 27 Nov 2012

Life at Shell: Working offshore | Shell Careers

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Graduates & Early-year Professionals -- Ever wonder what it's like to work offshore? Learn how Michelle, Facilities Engineer, makes an impact in today's society by gaining hands-on experience at an offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico and working with a global team of technical experts to provide innovative solutions.
Welcome to Shell’s official YouTube channel. Subscribe here to learn about the future of energy, see our new technology and innovation in action or watch highlights from our major projects around the world. Here you’ll also find videos on jobs and careers, motorsports, the Shell Eco-marathon as well as new products like Shell V-Power. If you have any thoughts or questions, please comment, like or share. Together we can #...

published: 30 Aug 2013

Nigeria's female oil tycoon

Amy Jadesimi is the managing director of LADOL, an oil and gas servicing company, based in Africa's most populous nation -- Nigeria.

published: 30 Mar 2017

First E&P nears development phase offshore Nigeria

The chief executive of FirstE&P, Ademola Adeyemi–Bero, says the private oil firm is preparing to development its offshore assets in Nigeria after more than two years of searching for opportunities. First E&P currently has an equity interest in 5 licences (and is operator is 4), but still needs to secure funding before it sees first oil. The two most significant blocks, in shallow water, are “excellent assets” according to the CEO, who is now working with Deutsche Bank to arrange debt and equity-type financing.

published: 23 Jun 2015

Spill Prevention and Response in the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry

When it comes to the topic of oil spills, preventing them is our number one focus. However, as an industry, we want to collaborate amongst other operators as well as with response organizations to make sure that we have a robust oil spill response regime.
Regularly throughout the year, operators conduct training on oil spill response with our vessel crews and the personnel that work offshore. Synergy is a great opportunity for us to come together and work collaboratively with other operators as well as oil spill response organizations.
Thanks very much for coming to the Synergy oil spill counter-measures exercise today. It’s a really important day for Suncor and all the other operators, and Suncor is hosting this exercise on behalf of Hibernia, Husky, and Statoil.
So, will they do a l...

Nigeria is seeking to amend a law on deep offshore oil exploration and drilling, aiming to increase government revenue from crude sales when prices exceed $20 a...

Nigeria is seeking to amend a law on deep offshore oil exploration and drilling, aiming to increase government revenue from crude sales when prices exceed $20 a barrel, the country’s oil minister said on Wednesday.
Nigeria’s government relies on oil for around two-thirds of its revenue and Africa’s largest economy is still largely dependent on crude production despite the current administration’s attempts to diversify away from the industry. Those efforts have yielded few results, economic data shows.
Under the deep offshore act, there was a provision in 1993 that allowed for the government to charge oil companies a premium for the administration’s share of sales once the price of crude exceeded $20 a barrel.
The Nigerian government has not enforced that provision but could now look to amend the law to enable it to do so, Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, the oil minister, told reporters after a cabinet meeting in the capital of Abuja.
“The net effect for us is close to $2 billion extra revenue for the federation,” Kachikwu said, adding that the petroleum ministry was working with the attorney general to look at the legislation.
“From 1993 to now, cumulatively, we have lost a total of $21 billion just because government did not act. We did not exercise it,” he said of the law, without explaining what amendment was needed.
The oil minister noted it would be difficult to recoup past losses, given oil companies that were not paying the government a premium for sales over $20 a barrel were not breaking the law.
However, the administration will explore whether there is an opportunity to get back some of the money, Kachikwu added.
The government is also pushing to have Nigeria’s three main oil refineries up and running at full capacity by 2019, the oil minister said.
Despite producing vast quantities of crude oil, Nigeria exports almost all of its crude for refining overseas before paying to have the final fuel products imported, a drain on foreign currency reserves.
The administration hopes to raise $2 billion for the refurbishment of the refineries from the private sector, and have them producing around 425,000 barrels of oil per day by the end of 2019, said Kachikwu.
Nigeria’s reliance on oil sales led to it falling into recession last year largely due to low crude prices and attacks by militants on energy facilities in the southern Niger Delta production heartland.
The OPEC member emerged from the recession - its first in 25 years - in the second quarter of 2017 as a result of higher oil receipts.

Nigeria is seeking to amend a law on deep offshore oil exploration and drilling, aiming to increase government revenue from crude sales when prices exceed $20 a barrel, the country’s oil minister said on Wednesday.
Nigeria’s government relies on oil for around two-thirds of its revenue and Africa’s largest economy is still largely dependent on crude production despite the current administration’s attempts to diversify away from the industry. Those efforts have yielded few results, economic data shows.
Under the deep offshore act, there was a provision in 1993 that allowed for the government to charge oil companies a premium for the administration’s share of sales once the price of crude exceeded $20 a barrel.
The Nigerian government has not enforced that provision but could now look to amend the law to enable it to do so, Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, the oil minister, told reporters after a cabinet meeting in the capital of Abuja.
“The net effect for us is close to $2 billion extra revenue for the federation,” Kachikwu said, adding that the petroleum ministry was working with the attorney general to look at the legislation.
“From 1993 to now, cumulatively, we have lost a total of $21 billion just because government did not act. We did not exercise it,” he said of the law, without explaining what amendment was needed.
The oil minister noted it would be difficult to recoup past losses, given oil companies that were not paying the government a premium for sales over $20 a barrel were not breaking the law.
However, the administration will explore whether there is an opportunity to get back some of the money, Kachikwu added.
The government is also pushing to have Nigeria’s three main oil refineries up and running at full capacity by 2019, the oil minister said.
Despite producing vast quantities of crude oil, Nigeria exports almost all of its crude for refining overseas before paying to have the final fuel products imported, a drain on foreign currency reserves.
The administration hopes to raise $2 billion for the refurbishment of the refineries from the private sector, and have them producing around 425,000 barrels of oil per day by the end of 2019, said Kachikwu.
Nigeria’s reliance on oil sales led to it falling into recession last year largely due to low crude prices and attacks by militants on energy facilities in the southern Niger Delta production heartland.
The OPEC member emerged from the recession - its first in 25 years - in the second quarter of 2017 as a result of higher oil receipts.

Three indigenous oil and gas exploration firms -- Optimum, Afren and Lekoil -- yesterday announced a significant oil find in Oil Prospecting Lease, OPL310, offshore Nigeria.
The latest find, which has great potential to yield commercial oil, was made at Ogo-1 well after drilling 10,402 feet. The discovery has the potential to significantly boost Nigeria's oil reserve which currently stands at 37 billion barrels.
Afren Plc said it had drilled a well to a total measured depth of 10,518ft (10,402ft true vertical depth subsea), and had encountered a gross hydrocarbon section of 524ft, with 216ft of net stacked pay.
The firm added that the well was initially targeted to yield 78 million barrels of oil equivalent but based on evidence to date, targeted resources were likely to be significantly in excess of previous estimates.
The company said further evaluation using wireline log analysis was currently underway prior to extending the well to a total measured depth of 11,800ft (11,684ft true vertical depth subsea) to target further high potential zones.
"The Ogo-1 discovery, testing a four-way dipclosed structure in the Turonian, Cenomanian and Albian sandstone reservoirs, confirms the extension of the same Cretaceous sandstones that have yielded other significant discoveries along the West AfricanTransform Margin," the company said in a statement.
It added that: "Following the completion of drilling operations at Ogo-1, the partners intend to drill a planned side-track, Ogo-1 ST, which will test a new play of stratigraphically trapped sediments that pinch-out onto the basement high targeting 124 mmboe of gross P50 prospective resources."
The completion of exploration and eventual commercial production would be beneficial to not only the Federal Government but also other stakeholders, including Optimum, Afren and Lekoil that have different participating and economic interests in the oil block.
Specifically, participating interest in the block is Optimum on 60 per cent, Afren on 22.86 per cent and Lekoil on 17.14 per cent. Economic interest is Optimum on 30 per cent, Afren on 40 per cent and Lekoil on 30 per cent.
The Chief Executive of Afren Plc, Mr. OsmanShahenshah, said the discovery of oil in the Ogo-1 well opened up a new oil basin in an under-explored region and represented a possible extension of the West African Transform Margin.
According to Shahenshah, based on evidence to date, targeted resources are likely to be significantly in excess of previous estimates, with some highpotential zones still to be drilled.
He said: "We look forward to working with our partners to realise the full potential of Ogo and our additional prospects on the license.
"The Ogo-1 exploration success follows a series of recent discoveries, Okoro Field Extension, Ebok NorthFaultBlock and Okwok in Nigeria and Simrit-2 and Simrit-3 on the Ain Sifni Block in the Kurdistan region of Iraq."
Nigeria has not made significant oil and gas reserves in recent times as a result of low investment which is said to be a direct function of outdated legislations in the industry.
For instance, the Petroleum IndustryBill, PIB, targeted to make the industry more attractive to local and foreign investors, has been with the National Assembly in the last five years.
Consequently, many investors have gone to invest in other countries that offer competitive legislations, incentives and policies.
A top official of Stumberger confirmed at a recent industry conference in Lagos that many nations in the Gulf of Guinea, especially Angola, have attracted a lot of investments in the past few years.
This, according to him, has culminated in the making of commercial oil and gas finds that are capable of boosting reserves and ranking of Angola as a major producer.
The official tasked stakeholders, especially legislators, to make progress in order to complete work on the important bill targeted at restructuring the nation's oil and gas industry as well as attracting more investments to boost reserves as well as production capacity.
However, a Lagosbased lawyer, Mr. Emeka Okwuosa, said the new PIB was a step in the right direction, a watershed reform that would change the landscape of the oil and gas industry in Nigeria.
Okwuosa said the future was promising because the new PIB would be a good and excellent law, open up investment opportunities, unbundle the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, for better performance and result, and create a transparent, accountable and corruptfree energy regime.

Three indigenous oil and gas exploration firms -- Optimum, Afren and Lekoil -- yesterday announced a significant oil find in Oil Prospecting Lease, OPL310, offshore Nigeria.
The latest find, which has great potential to yield commercial oil, was made at Ogo-1 well after drilling 10,402 feet. The discovery has the potential to significantly boost Nigeria's oil reserve which currently stands at 37 billion barrels.
Afren Plc said it had drilled a well to a total measured depth of 10,518ft (10,402ft true vertical depth subsea), and had encountered a gross hydrocarbon section of 524ft, with 216ft of net stacked pay.
The firm added that the well was initially targeted to yield 78 million barrels of oil equivalent but based on evidence to date, targeted resources were likely to be significantly in excess of previous estimates.
The company said further evaluation using wireline log analysis was currently underway prior to extending the well to a total measured depth of 11,800ft (11,684ft true vertical depth subsea) to target further high potential zones.
"The Ogo-1 discovery, testing a four-way dipclosed structure in the Turonian, Cenomanian and Albian sandstone reservoirs, confirms the extension of the same Cretaceous sandstones that have yielded other significant discoveries along the West AfricanTransform Margin," the company said in a statement.
It added that: "Following the completion of drilling operations at Ogo-1, the partners intend to drill a planned side-track, Ogo-1 ST, which will test a new play of stratigraphically trapped sediments that pinch-out onto the basement high targeting 124 mmboe of gross P50 prospective resources."
The completion of exploration and eventual commercial production would be beneficial to not only the Federal Government but also other stakeholders, including Optimum, Afren and Lekoil that have different participating and economic interests in the oil block.
Specifically, participating interest in the block is Optimum on 60 per cent, Afren on 22.86 per cent and Lekoil on 17.14 per cent. Economic interest is Optimum on 30 per cent, Afren on 40 per cent and Lekoil on 30 per cent.
The Chief Executive of Afren Plc, Mr. OsmanShahenshah, said the discovery of oil in the Ogo-1 well opened up a new oil basin in an under-explored region and represented a possible extension of the West African Transform Margin.
According to Shahenshah, based on evidence to date, targeted resources are likely to be significantly in excess of previous estimates, with some highpotential zones still to be drilled.
He said: "We look forward to working with our partners to realise the full potential of Ogo and our additional prospects on the license.
"The Ogo-1 exploration success follows a series of recent discoveries, Okoro Field Extension, Ebok NorthFaultBlock and Okwok in Nigeria and Simrit-2 and Simrit-3 on the Ain Sifni Block in the Kurdistan region of Iraq."
Nigeria has not made significant oil and gas reserves in recent times as a result of low investment which is said to be a direct function of outdated legislations in the industry.
For instance, the Petroleum IndustryBill, PIB, targeted to make the industry more attractive to local and foreign investors, has been with the National Assembly in the last five years.
Consequently, many investors have gone to invest in other countries that offer competitive legislations, incentives and policies.
A top official of Stumberger confirmed at a recent industry conference in Lagos that many nations in the Gulf of Guinea, especially Angola, have attracted a lot of investments in the past few years.
This, according to him, has culminated in the making of commercial oil and gas finds that are capable of boosting reserves and ranking of Angola as a major producer.
The official tasked stakeholders, especially legislators, to make progress in order to complete work on the important bill targeted at restructuring the nation's oil and gas industry as well as attracting more investments to boost reserves as well as production capacity.
However, a Lagosbased lawyer, Mr. Emeka Okwuosa, said the new PIB was a step in the right direction, a watershed reform that would change the landscape of the oil and gas industry in Nigeria.
Okwuosa said the future was promising because the new PIB would be a good and excellent law, open up investment opportunities, unbundle the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, for better performance and result, and create a transparent, accountable and corruptfree energy regime.

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Ensure you meet the minimum qualifications for employment on almost any oil rig. They are the following:
You are over 18 years of age.
You are very physically fit. You should also be mentally fit. You will be required to pass a physical exam before being hired.
You are a non-smoker, and you can abstain from alcohol during your long 14 to 21 day shifts.
You are willing and able to take on the unusual schedule of an oil rig worker. You should be open to working nights, and you should be able to work many days on end without weekend breaks.
An oil rig is a manned platform used for land or off-shore drilling. An oil rig worker can denote an employee on either platform, responsible for a large number of duties associated with safely drilling for oil. The schedule for most workers consists of working 14 to 21 consecutive days before being given time off. As well as earning a wage, most offshore oil rig workers are provided food and board and some travel expenses. Getting your first job on an oil rig may be the toughest part of the process, because oil rig managers value experience.

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Oil Rig Jobs http://www.rigzone.com/oil/jobs/categories/drilling-rig-personnel-3/
Ensure you meet the minimum qualifications for employment on almost any oil rig. They are the following:
You are over 18 years of age.
You are very physically fit. You should also be mentally fit. You will be required to pass a physical exam before being hired.
You are a non-smoker, and you can abstain from alcohol during your long 14 to 21 day shifts.
You are willing and able to take on the unusual schedule of an oil rig worker. You should be open to working nights, and you should be able to work many days on end without weekend breaks.
An oil rig is a manned platform used for land or off-shore drilling. An oil rig worker can denote an employee on either platform, responsible for a large number of duties associated with safely drilling for oil. The schedule for most workers consists of working 14 to 21 consecutive days before being given time off. As well as earning a wage, most offshore oil rig workers are provided food and board and some travel expenses. Getting your first job on an oil rig may be the toughest part of the process, because oil rig managers value experience.

Deep Sea (Offshore) Drilling Oil Well Exploration

They are virtual cities stuck in the middle of some of the most dangerous seas on earth. Life on them is hard and fraught with danger from calamitous fires a.
...

They are virtual cities stuck in the middle of some of the most dangerous seas on earth. Life on them is hard and fraught with danger from calamitous fires a.
Animation of deepwater drilling.
Drilling wells is one of the most important activities in the process of finding hydrocarbon reservoirs and producing oil and gas from these reservoirs to me.
Auxillary Drilling Supervisor, Louise takes us through her daily life onboard the DeepseaMetro I drill ship. Louise overseas the team that make up the drill.

They are virtual cities stuck in the middle of some of the most dangerous seas on earth. Life on them is hard and fraught with danger from calamitous fires a.
Animation of deepwater drilling.
Drilling wells is one of the most important activities in the process of finding hydrocarbon reservoirs and producing oil and gas from these reservoirs to me.
Auxillary Drilling Supervisor, Louise takes us through her daily life onboard the DeepseaMetro I drill ship. Louise overseas the team that make up the drill.

Piracy in Nigeria - People & Power
The event followed a now familiar pattern: a small convoy of dusty 4x4 vehicles drove on to the edge of the airstrip at Galkayo in Puntland, north-central Somalia; armed security guards took up watchful positions nearby and a number of bemused-looking men stepped gingerly from the cars and lined up to have their photographs taken by the media.
On this occasion there were 11 of them; all had been hostages until that morning. They were sailors from a Malaysian cargo vessel that had been hijacked by Somali pirates a few years ago and held until a ransom was paid for their release.
One of them gave a brief account of what had happened. "On November 26, 2010 our ship was hijacked in the Indian Ocean. Their demand was 20 million. After that, they threatened the owner. You now increase money or we will shoot the crew. The owner didn't increase the money and then one Indian is shot with just three bullets. Then they hit us and tortured us. Tell your family to bring us money, otherwise we will kill you!"
The crew had been held for three and a half years but they were the fortunate ones. Five of their crew mates had died in that time. Now the survivors were going home and a UN plane with two envoys on board was flying in to see them to safety.
Such scenes have become relatively commonplace in Galkayo in recent times. Eighty percent of global trade is carried by sea and Somalia sits on a key maritime route linking Europe and Asia. More than 18,000 ships pass its shores every year. Over the past decade, Somali pirates, often former fishermen whose traditional livelihoods have been destroyed by foreign trawlers and toxic waste dumping, have attacked more than 300 vessels and kidnapped 700 people.
Faced with such a threat, the international community responded aggressively. In 2008, European states, the US and others began sending naval forces to these seas. They are still there today - warships, planes and helicopters patrolling thousands of square miles and doing a fair job of keeping the hijackers at bay. The UN and others have also played an increasing role in facilitating negotiations for the release of hostages - such as those set free at places such as Galkayo - for whose liberty large ransoms have been paid.
But if the problem is now slowly coming under control in Somalia, the same cannot be said for other parts of the world where piracy is on the increase. Lawlessness, desperation, poverty, greed and even political radicalism have brought the phenomenon to the waters of South America, Asia and, perhaps most aggressively, to West Africa.
In an effort to understand the reasons why, Bertrand Monnet, a French academic and filmmaker, has been travelling to piracy hot spots around the coast of Africa. In an extraordinary and very tense series of encounters, he came to face to face with heavily armed pirate gangs operating in and around the Niger Delta, where Nigeria's huge offshore oil industry, which employs thousands of expatriates, offers rich ransom pickings. It gradually became clear that piracy in West Africa has many of the same root causes as piracy in Somalia and elsewhere, not least of which is that those who don't share in the benefits and profits of global trade have ever fewer reasons these days to respect the security of those who do.
Source: Al Jazeera
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Piracy in Nigeria - People & Power
The event followed a now familiar pattern: a small convoy of dusty 4x4 vehicles drove on to the edge of the airstrip at Galkayo in Puntland, north-central Somalia; armed security guards took up watchful positions nearby and a number of bemused-looking men stepped gingerly from the cars and lined up to have their photographs taken by the media.
On this occasion there were 11 of them; all had been hostages until that morning. They were sailors from a Malaysian cargo vessel that had been hijacked by Somali pirates a few years ago and held until a ransom was paid for their release.
One of them gave a brief account of what had happened. "On November 26, 2010 our ship was hijacked in the Indian Ocean. Their demand was 20 million. After that, they threatened the owner. You now increase money or we will shoot the crew. The owner didn't increase the money and then one Indian is shot with just three bullets. Then they hit us and tortured us. Tell your family to bring us money, otherwise we will kill you!"
The crew had been held for three and a half years but they were the fortunate ones. Five of their crew mates had died in that time. Now the survivors were going home and a UN plane with two envoys on board was flying in to see them to safety.
Such scenes have become relatively commonplace in Galkayo in recent times. Eighty percent of global trade is carried by sea and Somalia sits on a key maritime route linking Europe and Asia. More than 18,000 ships pass its shores every year. Over the past decade, Somali pirates, often former fishermen whose traditional livelihoods have been destroyed by foreign trawlers and toxic waste dumping, have attacked more than 300 vessels and kidnapped 700 people.
Faced with such a threat, the international community responded aggressively. In 2008, European states, the US and others began sending naval forces to these seas. They are still there today - warships, planes and helicopters patrolling thousands of square miles and doing a fair job of keeping the hijackers at bay. The UN and others have also played an increasing role in facilitating negotiations for the release of hostages - such as those set free at places such as Galkayo - for whose liberty large ransoms have been paid.
But if the problem is now slowly coming under control in Somalia, the same cannot be said for other parts of the world where piracy is on the increase. Lawlessness, desperation, poverty, greed and even political radicalism have brought the phenomenon to the waters of South America, Asia and, perhaps most aggressively, to West Africa.
In an effort to understand the reasons why, Bertrand Monnet, a French academic and filmmaker, has been travelling to piracy hot spots around the coast of Africa. In an extraordinary and very tense series of encounters, he came to face to face with heavily armed pirate gangs operating in and around the Niger Delta, where Nigeria's huge offshore oil industry, which employs thousands of expatriates, offers rich ransom pickings. It gradually became clear that piracy in West Africa has many of the same root causes as piracy in Somalia and elsewhere, not least of which is that those who don't share in the benefits and profits of global trade have ever fewer reasons these days to respect the security of those who do.
Source: Al Jazeera
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Growing Offshore Oil and Gas industry - Part 1

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On Focus on Ports we focus on Africa's growing offshore Oil and Gas industry. With exploration on the west coast of the continent growing e...

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On Focus on Ports we focus on Africa's growing offshore Oil and Gas industry. With exploration on the west coast of the continent growing exponentially with indications that Africa's East coast may follow suit, South Africa is strategically positioned to respond to the rig repairs and servicing of off shore oil rigs and drilling equipment. Focus on ports looks at infrastructure and investment needed to respond to this market demand.

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On Focus on Ports we focus on Africa's growing offshore Oil and Gas industry. With exploration on the west coast of the continent growing exponentially with indications that Africa's East coast may follow suit, South Africa is strategically positioned to respond to the rig repairs and servicing of off shore oil rigs and drilling equipment. Focus on ports looks at infrastructure and investment needed to respond to this market demand.

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Graduates & Early-year Professionals -- Ever wonder what it's like to work offshore? Learn how Michelle, Facilities Engineer, makes an impact in today's society by gaining hands-on experience at an offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico and working with a global team of technical experts to provide innovative solutions.
Welcome to Shell’s official YouTube channel. Subscribe here to learn about the future of energy, see our new technology and innovation in action or watch highlights from our major projects around the world. Here you’ll also find videos on jobs and careers, motorsports, the Shell Eco-marathon as well as new products like Shell V-Power. If you have any thoughts or questions, please comment, like or share. Together we can #makethefuture
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Welcome to Shell’s official YouTube channel. Subscribe here to learn about the future of energy, see our new technology and innovation in action or watch highlights from our major projects around the world. Here you’ll also find videos on jobs and careers, motorsports, the Shell Eco-marathon as well as new products like Shell V-Power. If you have any thoughts or questions, please comment, like or share. Together we can #makethefuture
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First E&P nears development phase offshore Nigeria

The chief executive of FirstE&P, Ademola Adeyemi–Bero, says the private oil firm is preparing to development its offshore assets in Nigeria after more than two...

The chief executive of FirstE&P, Ademola Adeyemi–Bero, says the private oil firm is preparing to development its offshore assets in Nigeria after more than two years of searching for opportunities. First E&P currently has an equity interest in 5 licences (and is operator is 4), but still needs to secure funding before it sees first oil. The two most significant blocks, in shallow water, are “excellent assets” according to the CEO, who is now working with Deutsche Bank to arrange debt and equity-type financing.

The chief executive of FirstE&P, Ademola Adeyemi–Bero, says the private oil firm is preparing to development its offshore assets in Nigeria after more than two years of searching for opportunities. First E&P currently has an equity interest in 5 licences (and is operator is 4), but still needs to secure funding before it sees first oil. The two most significant blocks, in shallow water, are “excellent assets” according to the CEO, who is now working with Deutsche Bank to arrange debt and equity-type financing.

Spill Prevention and Response in the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry

When it comes to the topic of oil spills, preventing them is our number one focus. However, as an industry, we want to collaborate amongst other operators as we...

When it comes to the topic of oil spills, preventing them is our number one focus. However, as an industry, we want to collaborate amongst other operators as well as with response organizations to make sure that we have a robust oil spill response regime.
Regularly throughout the year, operators conduct training on oil spill response with our vessel crews and the personnel that work offshore. Synergy is a great opportunity for us to come together and work collaboratively with other operators as well as oil spill response organizations.
Thanks very much for coming to the Synergy oil spill counter-measures exercise today. It’s a really important day for Suncor and all the other operators, and Suncor is hosting this exercise on behalf of Hibernia, Husky, and Statoil.
So, will they do a loop now, we got it in the water there, is that the idea?...Yep. Yeah, so what they’ll do is, the vessel will start to move, that’ll allow the boom to sort of open up and make that nice U-formation. Ah, and then they’ll deploy the skimmer out into the water.
Working collaboratively between the operators helps us ensure that our oil response programs are in place and are effective and that we learn from each other to make sure that best management practices are in place.
The Synergy exercise is important because it demonstrates our ability to deploy the equipment in a safe and effective manner. You don’t deploy oil spill equipment in five minutes. It’s a process that takes time to do it well and to do it properly. But that’s important to make sure that we don’t hurt anyone and that we’re able have equipment that’s going to be capable of responding in a spill.
In addition to demonstrating what we do, it’s also a great way for us to learn and that’s another tool for us to help us identify how we continuously improve our oil spill response capability here on the East coast. So, again, any suggestions you may have, please feel free to pass them along.
Oil spill response is a daily activity for us. Through regular training of vessel crews, maintenance of equipment and exercises and drills, it’s something we do on an ongoing basis to make sure that our people are capable of responding to an offshore spill.

When it comes to the topic of oil spills, preventing them is our number one focus. However, as an industry, we want to collaborate amongst other operators as well as with response organizations to make sure that we have a robust oil spill response regime.
Regularly throughout the year, operators conduct training on oil spill response with our vessel crews and the personnel that work offshore. Synergy is a great opportunity for us to come together and work collaboratively with other operators as well as oil spill response organizations.
Thanks very much for coming to the Synergy oil spill counter-measures exercise today. It’s a really important day for Suncor and all the other operators, and Suncor is hosting this exercise on behalf of Hibernia, Husky, and Statoil.
So, will they do a loop now, we got it in the water there, is that the idea?...Yep. Yeah, so what they’ll do is, the vessel will start to move, that’ll allow the boom to sort of open up and make that nice U-formation. Ah, and then they’ll deploy the skimmer out into the water.
Working collaboratively between the operators helps us ensure that our oil response programs are in place and are effective and that we learn from each other to make sure that best management practices are in place.
The Synergy exercise is important because it demonstrates our ability to deploy the equipment in a safe and effective manner. You don’t deploy oil spill equipment in five minutes. It’s a process that takes time to do it well and to do it properly. But that’s important to make sure that we don’t hurt anyone and that we’re able have equipment that’s going to be capable of responding in a spill.
In addition to demonstrating what we do, it’s also a great way for us to learn and that’s another tool for us to help us identify how we continuously improve our oil spill response capability here on the East coast. So, again, any suggestions you may have, please feel free to pass them along.
Oil spill response is a daily activity for us. Through regular training of vessel crews, maintenance of equipment and exercises and drills, it’s something we do on an ongoing basis to make sure that our people are capable of responding to an offshore spill.

Deep Sea (Offshore) Drilling Oil Well Exploration

They are virtual cities stuck in the middle of some of the most dangerous seas on earth. Life on them is hard and fraught with danger from calamitous fires a.
Animation of deepwater drilling.
Drilling wells is one of the most important activities in the process of finding hydrocarbon reservoirs and producing oil and gas from these reservoirs to me.
Auxillary Drilling Supervisor, Louise takes us through her daily life onboard the DeepseaMetro I drill ship. Louise overseas the team that make up the drill.

published: 28 Nov 2014

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Piracy in Nigeria - People & Power
The event followed a now familiar pattern: a small convoy of dusty 4x4 vehicles drove on to the edge of the airstrip at Galkayo in Puntland, north-central Somalia; armed security guards took up watchful positions nearby and a number of bemused-looking men stepped gingerly from the cars and lined up to have their photographs taken by the media.
On this occasion there were 11 of them; all had been hostages until that morning. They were sailors from a Malaysian cargo vessel that had been hijacked by Somali pirates a few years ago and held until a ransom was paid for their release.
One of them gave a brief account of what had happened. "On November 26, 2010 our ship was hijacked in the Indian Ocean. Their demand was 20 million. After that, they threatened...

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The basics of Refining at the field of Oil and Gas . for more about oil and gas go to http://hsseworld.com/category/safety/oil-gas/

published: 11 Apr 2017

Offshore Safety: The First Visit (Helicopter, Boat & Oil Platform)

For personnel's going offshore on an oil rig or platform. The BOSIET course is a minimum requirement to work offshore. The course consists of four modules; .
BOSIET stands for basic offshore safety induction and emergency training, a course created to assist in meeting the initial onshore safety training, emergency .
Helicopter landing on offshore oil platform.

published: 03 Sep 2016

NEW AND EMERGING ROLES OF CUSTOMS: CUSTOMS REGULATION OF OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS INSTALLATIONS

In some countries, Customs administrations have a range of responsibilities relating to the offshore petroleum industry and offshore petroleum installations. In fact, depending on the country's legal and administrative framework, offshore petroleum installations may fall under direct control of Customs, and Customs administrations can play important role in regulating offshore oil and gas installations and offshore activities. With the increasing number of offshore oil and gas platforms on the continental shelf areas around the world, their regulation is becoming a new area of responsibility for some Customs administrations, while Customs administrations or other border agencies that already have responsibilities in the regulation of the offshore petroleum industry may find that they have ...

published: 12 Feb 2013

The production of crude oil - Black gold

It's hard to imagine a world in which oil doesn't play such a central role in global economics, with just about every industry critically dependent upon it and countries willing to wage war over this black gold. But things could so easily have turned out differently. While people may have been burning oil and using it as a lubricant for thousands of years, it was not until the motor industry took off about 80 years ago that oil started to become such a key player. Henry Ford's Model T, the first production-line car, was actually designed to run off alcohol-based ethanol, as well as oil-derived petrol. But thanks to the prohibition of alcohol in the US, petrol fuels prevailed.
In its raw form, oil consists of a black, viscous fluid made up of high concentrations of organic compounds origin...

published: 12 Dec 2016

Nigeria's Oil Blocs Allocation And Regulatory Controversies Part 2

LoveWorldPlus TV: The procedure for awarding oil blocks in Nigeria has become urgent, given the current controversy over which section of the country controls majority interest in the oil industry. SenatorIta Enang caused a stir during the Senate session on March 6, 2013 when he alleged that 83 per cent of the oil blocks were owned by people from the northern part of the country. This, if true, could only have been possible in an atmosphere of arbitrariness, corruption and lack of transparency. Experts have advised that decisions on how oil and gas licenses are allocated to companies, need to be taken in a transparent orderly method to remove any risk of conflicts of interests. These are the issues we hope to analyze in this edition of The Agenda.

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Deep Sea (Offshore) Drilling Oil Well Exploration

They are virtual cities stuck in the middle of some of the most dangerous seas on earth. Life on them is hard and fraught with danger from calamitous fires a.
...

They are virtual cities stuck in the middle of some of the most dangerous seas on earth. Life on them is hard and fraught with danger from calamitous fires a.
Animation of deepwater drilling.
Drilling wells is one of the most important activities in the process of finding hydrocarbon reservoirs and producing oil and gas from these reservoirs to me.
Auxillary Drilling Supervisor, Louise takes us through her daily life onboard the DeepseaMetro I drill ship. Louise overseas the team that make up the drill.

They are virtual cities stuck in the middle of some of the most dangerous seas on earth. Life on them is hard and fraught with danger from calamitous fires a.
Animation of deepwater drilling.
Drilling wells is one of the most important activities in the process of finding hydrocarbon reservoirs and producing oil and gas from these reservoirs to me.
Auxillary Drilling Supervisor, Louise takes us through her daily life onboard the DeepseaMetro I drill ship. Louise overseas the team that make up the drill.

Piracy in Nigeria - People & Power
The event followed a now familiar pattern: a small convoy of dusty 4x4 vehicles drove on to the edge of the airstrip at Galkayo in Puntland, north-central Somalia; armed security guards took up watchful positions nearby and a number of bemused-looking men stepped gingerly from the cars and lined up to have their photographs taken by the media.
On this occasion there were 11 of them; all had been hostages until that morning. They were sailors from a Malaysian cargo vessel that had been hijacked by Somali pirates a few years ago and held until a ransom was paid for their release.
One of them gave a brief account of what had happened. "On November 26, 2010 our ship was hijacked in the Indian Ocean. Their demand was 20 million. After that, they threatened the owner. You now increase money or we will shoot the crew. The owner didn't increase the money and then one Indian is shot with just three bullets. Then they hit us and tortured us. Tell your family to bring us money, otherwise we will kill you!"
The crew had been held for three and a half years but they were the fortunate ones. Five of their crew mates had died in that time. Now the survivors were going home and a UN plane with two envoys on board was flying in to see them to safety.
Such scenes have become relatively commonplace in Galkayo in recent times. Eighty percent of global trade is carried by sea and Somalia sits on a key maritime route linking Europe and Asia. More than 18,000 ships pass its shores every year. Over the past decade, Somali pirates, often former fishermen whose traditional livelihoods have been destroyed by foreign trawlers and toxic waste dumping, have attacked more than 300 vessels and kidnapped 700 people.
Faced with such a threat, the international community responded aggressively. In 2008, European states, the US and others began sending naval forces to these seas. They are still there today - warships, planes and helicopters patrolling thousands of square miles and doing a fair job of keeping the hijackers at bay. The UN and others have also played an increasing role in facilitating negotiations for the release of hostages - such as those set free at places such as Galkayo - for whose liberty large ransoms have been paid.
But if the problem is now slowly coming under control in Somalia, the same cannot be said for other parts of the world where piracy is on the increase. Lawlessness, desperation, poverty, greed and even political radicalism have brought the phenomenon to the waters of South America, Asia and, perhaps most aggressively, to West Africa.
In an effort to understand the reasons why, Bertrand Monnet, a French academic and filmmaker, has been travelling to piracy hot spots around the coast of Africa. In an extraordinary and very tense series of encounters, he came to face to face with heavily armed pirate gangs operating in and around the Niger Delta, where Nigeria's huge offshore oil industry, which employs thousands of expatriates, offers rich ransom pickings. It gradually became clear that piracy in West Africa has many of the same root causes as piracy in Somalia and elsewhere, not least of which is that those who don't share in the benefits and profits of global trade have ever fewer reasons these days to respect the security of those who do.
Source: Al Jazeera
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Piracy in Nigeria - People & Power
The event followed a now familiar pattern: a small convoy of dusty 4x4 vehicles drove on to the edge of the airstrip at Galkayo in Puntland, north-central Somalia; armed security guards took up watchful positions nearby and a number of bemused-looking men stepped gingerly from the cars and lined up to have their photographs taken by the media.
On this occasion there were 11 of them; all had been hostages until that morning. They were sailors from a Malaysian cargo vessel that had been hijacked by Somali pirates a few years ago and held until a ransom was paid for their release.
One of them gave a brief account of what had happened. "On November 26, 2010 our ship was hijacked in the Indian Ocean. Their demand was 20 million. After that, they threatened the owner. You now increase money or we will shoot the crew. The owner didn't increase the money and then one Indian is shot with just three bullets. Then they hit us and tortured us. Tell your family to bring us money, otherwise we will kill you!"
The crew had been held for three and a half years but they were the fortunate ones. Five of their crew mates had died in that time. Now the survivors were going home and a UN plane with two envoys on board was flying in to see them to safety.
Such scenes have become relatively commonplace in Galkayo in recent times. Eighty percent of global trade is carried by sea and Somalia sits on a key maritime route linking Europe and Asia. More than 18,000 ships pass its shores every year. Over the past decade, Somali pirates, often former fishermen whose traditional livelihoods have been destroyed by foreign trawlers and toxic waste dumping, have attacked more than 300 vessels and kidnapped 700 people.
Faced with such a threat, the international community responded aggressively. In 2008, European states, the US and others began sending naval forces to these seas. They are still there today - warships, planes and helicopters patrolling thousands of square miles and doing a fair job of keeping the hijackers at bay. The UN and others have also played an increasing role in facilitating negotiations for the release of hostages - such as those set free at places such as Galkayo - for whose liberty large ransoms have been paid.
But if the problem is now slowly coming under control in Somalia, the same cannot be said for other parts of the world where piracy is on the increase. Lawlessness, desperation, poverty, greed and even political radicalism have brought the phenomenon to the waters of South America, Asia and, perhaps most aggressively, to West Africa.
In an effort to understand the reasons why, Bertrand Monnet, a French academic and filmmaker, has been travelling to piracy hot spots around the coast of Africa. In an extraordinary and very tense series of encounters, he came to face to face with heavily armed pirate gangs operating in and around the Niger Delta, where Nigeria's huge offshore oil industry, which employs thousands of expatriates, offers rich ransom pickings. It gradually became clear that piracy in West Africa has many of the same root causes as piracy in Somalia and elsewhere, not least of which is that those who don't share in the benefits and profits of global trade have ever fewer reasons these days to respect the security of those who do.
Source: Al Jazeera
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Offshore Safety: The First Visit (Helicopter, Boat & Oil Platform)

For personnel's going offshore on an oil rig or platform. The BOSIET course is a minimum requirement to work offshore. The course consists of four modules; .
...

For personnel's going offshore on an oil rig or platform. The BOSIET course is a minimum requirement to work offshore. The course consists of four modules; .
BOSIET stands for basic offshore safety induction and emergency training, a course created to assist in meeting the initial onshore safety training, emergency .
Helicopter landing on offshore oil platform.

For personnel's going offshore on an oil rig or platform. The BOSIET course is a minimum requirement to work offshore. The course consists of four modules; .
BOSIET stands for basic offshore safety induction and emergency training, a course created to assist in meeting the initial onshore safety training, emergency .
Helicopter landing on offshore oil platform.

published:03 Sep 2016

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NEW AND EMERGING ROLES OF CUSTOMS: CUSTOMS REGULATION OF OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS INSTALLATIONS

In some countries, Customs administrations have a range of responsibilities relating to the offshore petroleum industry and offshore petroleum installations. In...

In some countries, Customs administrations have a range of responsibilities relating to the offshore petroleum industry and offshore petroleum installations. In fact, depending on the country's legal and administrative framework, offshore petroleum installations may fall under direct control of Customs, and Customs administrations can play important role in regulating offshore oil and gas installations and offshore activities. With the increasing number of offshore oil and gas platforms on the continental shelf areas around the world, their regulation is becoming a new area of responsibility for some Customs administrations, while Customs administrations or other border agencies that already have responsibilities in the regulation of the offshore petroleum industry may find that they have to devote more time and resources to it. This webinar provides an overview of the practical and legal issues of Customs regulation of offshore petroleum installations focusing on Australian law and practice.

In some countries, Customs administrations have a range of responsibilities relating to the offshore petroleum industry and offshore petroleum installations. In fact, depending on the country's legal and administrative framework, offshore petroleum installations may fall under direct control of Customs, and Customs administrations can play important role in regulating offshore oil and gas installations and offshore activities. With the increasing number of offshore oil and gas platforms on the continental shelf areas around the world, their regulation is becoming a new area of responsibility for some Customs administrations, while Customs administrations or other border agencies that already have responsibilities in the regulation of the offshore petroleum industry may find that they have to devote more time and resources to it. This webinar provides an overview of the practical and legal issues of Customs regulation of offshore petroleum installations focusing on Australian law and practice.

The production of crude oil - Black gold

It's hard to imagine a world in which oil doesn't play such a central role in global economics, with just about every industry critically dependent upon it and ...

It's hard to imagine a world in which oil doesn't play such a central role in global economics, with just about every industry critically dependent upon it and countries willing to wage war over this black gold. But things could so easily have turned out differently. While people may have been burning oil and using it as a lubricant for thousands of years, it was not until the motor industry took off about 80 years ago that oil started to become such a key player. Henry Ford's Model T, the first production-line car, was actually designed to run off alcohol-based ethanol, as well as oil-derived petrol. But thanks to the prohibition of alcohol in the US, petrol fuels prevailed.
In its raw form, oil consists of a black, viscous fluid made up of high concentrations of organic compounds originally derived from dead animal and vegetable matter, such as plankton, which have endured extreme geological processes over millions of years. When refined into hydrocarbon fuels, chains of carbon and hydrogen molecules, it becomes a useful fuel because it has such a high energy density, typically 10 times that of dynamite.
Part of our dependence on oil is due to the fact that a vast range of chemicals and materials are derived from it, including plastics, detergents, solvents and adhesives. However, many of these products could be manufactured synthetically. Where our real addiction to oil lies is in its use as a liquid fuel. There are plenty of other cleaner and more sustainable energy sources that could be used to power and heat our homes. But when it comes to transport, alternatives start to get tricky. This does not just come down to the high energy density of oil-derived fuels - after all, hydrogen fuel has an energy density roughly three times that of petrol. The problem is that we already have a multibillion-dollar infrastructure designed to produce, distribute and burn petrol.
Where does oil come from?
Despite the popular conception that oil exists in vast underground caverns, or wells, oil is in fact formed in porous, sponge-like rock formations. Before a well is tapped, the oil exists under immense pressure, meaning that when it is first drilled it forces itself out - essentially self-extracting. However, when the pressure eventually dips, the porous nature of the rock starts to play havoc with the extraction process, making a large proportion of the oil difficult to get out, or even gauge how much oil is in the well. In fact, even after using the most advanced extraction techniques, such as blasting high-pressure steam into the rock to force the oil out, no more than 40% of the oil is currently thought to be recoverable. With all the biggest known oil wells now thoroughly tapped, this poses a problem for the oil industry if it is to maintain oil recovery rates that can meet our still-growing demand. In light of this, the US is pumping tens of millions of dollars into research to find new ways to find and extract whatever oil is still out there. One idea is to pump novel nano-materials into wells to help loosen the oil's grip on the rock so it can more easily be extracted. Similarly, nano-sensors are also being developed that would be distributed into wells and interrogated from above ground to help map wells and find what oil is left.
But, inevitably, it will run out. Precisely when is a moot point, but some estimates say we have already reached peak oil production, while others say this won't happen until about 2030. With demand for oil rising by roughly 2% a year, increasing by up to 47% by 2030, it's hard not to assume we are driving into a major energy crisis. Desperate to keep productivity up, the oil industry is investing billions into extracting oil from more energy-intensive and costly sources such as tar sands and oil shales. Meanwhile, governments are investing in biofuel technologies, which make it possible to produce hydrocarbon fuels from feedstocks of crops such as rapeseed or maize. However, biofuels, although more sustainable than oil, are energy, land and water-intensive and carry a cost in terms of agricultural chemical pollution, and there is concern that it uses valuable land needed for producing food.
One solution, now being explored, is the use of solar energy to reverse the combustion process and produce hydrocarbon fuels from carbon dioxide sucked out of the atmosphere. .
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It's hard to imagine a world in which oil doesn't play such a central role in global economics, with just about every industry critically dependent upon it and countries willing to wage war over this black gold. But things could so easily have turned out differently. While people may have been burning oil and using it as a lubricant for thousands of years, it was not until the motor industry took off about 80 years ago that oil started to become such a key player. Henry Ford's Model T, the first production-line car, was actually designed to run off alcohol-based ethanol, as well as oil-derived petrol. But thanks to the prohibition of alcohol in the US, petrol fuels prevailed.
In its raw form, oil consists of a black, viscous fluid made up of high concentrations of organic compounds originally derived from dead animal and vegetable matter, such as plankton, which have endured extreme geological processes over millions of years. When refined into hydrocarbon fuels, chains of carbon and hydrogen molecules, it becomes a useful fuel because it has such a high energy density, typically 10 times that of dynamite.
Part of our dependence on oil is due to the fact that a vast range of chemicals and materials are derived from it, including plastics, detergents, solvents and adhesives. However, many of these products could be manufactured synthetically. Where our real addiction to oil lies is in its use as a liquid fuel. There are plenty of other cleaner and more sustainable energy sources that could be used to power and heat our homes. But when it comes to transport, alternatives start to get tricky. This does not just come down to the high energy density of oil-derived fuels - after all, hydrogen fuel has an energy density roughly three times that of petrol. The problem is that we already have a multibillion-dollar infrastructure designed to produce, distribute and burn petrol.
Where does oil come from?
Despite the popular conception that oil exists in vast underground caverns, or wells, oil is in fact formed in porous, sponge-like rock formations. Before a well is tapped, the oil exists under immense pressure, meaning that when it is first drilled it forces itself out - essentially self-extracting. However, when the pressure eventually dips, the porous nature of the rock starts to play havoc with the extraction process, making a large proportion of the oil difficult to get out, or even gauge how much oil is in the well. In fact, even after using the most advanced extraction techniques, such as blasting high-pressure steam into the rock to force the oil out, no more than 40% of the oil is currently thought to be recoverable. With all the biggest known oil wells now thoroughly tapped, this poses a problem for the oil industry if it is to maintain oil recovery rates that can meet our still-growing demand. In light of this, the US is pumping tens of millions of dollars into research to find new ways to find and extract whatever oil is still out there. One idea is to pump novel nano-materials into wells to help loosen the oil's grip on the rock so it can more easily be extracted. Similarly, nano-sensors are also being developed that would be distributed into wells and interrogated from above ground to help map wells and find what oil is left.
But, inevitably, it will run out. Precisely when is a moot point, but some estimates say we have already reached peak oil production, while others say this won't happen until about 2030. With demand for oil rising by roughly 2% a year, increasing by up to 47% by 2030, it's hard not to assume we are driving into a major energy crisis. Desperate to keep productivity up, the oil industry is investing billions into extracting oil from more energy-intensive and costly sources such as tar sands and oil shales. Meanwhile, governments are investing in biofuel technologies, which make it possible to produce hydrocarbon fuels from feedstocks of crops such as rapeseed or maize. However, biofuels, although more sustainable than oil, are energy, land and water-intensive and carry a cost in terms of agricultural chemical pollution, and there is concern that it uses valuable land needed for producing food.
One solution, now being explored, is the use of solar energy to reverse the combustion process and produce hydrocarbon fuels from carbon dioxide sucked out of the atmosphere. .
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Nigeria's Oil Blocs Allocation And Regulatory Controversies Part 2

LoveWorldPlus TV: The procedure for awarding oil blocks in Nigeria has become urgent, given the current controversy over which section of the country controls m...

LoveWorldPlus TV: The procedure for awarding oil blocks in Nigeria has become urgent, given the current controversy over which section of the country controls majority interest in the oil industry. SenatorIta Enang caused a stir during the Senate session on March 6, 2013 when he alleged that 83 per cent of the oil blocks were owned by people from the northern part of the country. This, if true, could only have been possible in an atmosphere of arbitrariness, corruption and lack of transparency. Experts have advised that decisions on how oil and gas licenses are allocated to companies, need to be taken in a transparent orderly method to remove any risk of conflicts of interests. These are the issues we hope to analyze in this edition of The Agenda.

LoveWorldPlus TV: The procedure for awarding oil blocks in Nigeria has become urgent, given the current controversy over which section of the country controls majority interest in the oil industry. SenatorIta Enang caused a stir during the Senate session on March 6, 2013 when he alleged that 83 per cent of the oil blocks were owned by people from the northern part of the country. This, if true, could only have been possible in an atmosphere of arbitrariness, corruption and lack of transparency. Experts have advised that decisions on how oil and gas licenses are allocated to companies, need to be taken in a transparent orderly method to remove any risk of conflicts of interests. These are the issues we hope to analyze in this edition of The Agenda.

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Nigeria is seeking to amend a law on deep offshore oil exploration and drilling, aiming to increase government revenue from crude sales when prices exceed $20 a barrel, the country’s oil minister said on Wednesday.
Nigeria’s government relies on oil for around two-thirds of its revenue and Africa’s largest economy is still largely dependent on crude production despite the current administration’s attempts to diversify away from the industry. Those efforts have yielded few results, economic data shows.
Under the deep offshore act, there was a provision in 1993 that allowed for the government to charge oil companies a premium for the administration’s share of sales once the price of crude exceeded $20 a barrel.
The Nigerian government has not enforced that provision but could now look to amend the law to enable it to do so, Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, the oil minister, told reporters after a cabinet meeting in the capital of Abuja.
“The net effect for us is close to $2 billion extra revenue for the federation,” Kachikwu said, adding that the petroleum ministry was working with the attorney general to look at the legislation.
“From 1993 to now, cumulatively, we have lost a total of $21 billion just because government did not act. We did not exercise it,” he said of the law, without explaining what amendment was needed.
The oil minister noted it would be difficult to recoup past losses, given oil companies that were not paying the government a premium for sales over $20 a barrel were not breaking the law.
However, the administration will explore whether there is an opportunity to get back some of the money, Kachikwu added.
The government is also pushing to have Nigeria’s three main oil refineries up and running at full capacity by 2019, the oil minister said.
Despite producing vast quantities of crude oil, Nigeria exports almost all of its crude for refining overseas before paying to have the final fuel products imported, a drain on foreign currency reserves.
The administration hopes to raise $2 billion for the refurbishment of the refineries from the private sector, and have them producing around 425,000 barrels of oil per day by the end of 2019, said Kachikwu.
Nigeria’s reliance on oil sales led to it falling into recession last year largely due to low crude prices and attacks by militants on energy facilities in the southern Niger Delta production heartland.
The OPEC member emerged from the recession - its first in 25 years - in the second quarter of 2017 as a result of higher oil receipts.

Nigerian Oil Company Stikes Gold Finds Huge Oil Deposits

Three indigenous oil and gas exploration firms -- Optimum, Afren and Lekoil -- yesterday announced a significant oil find in Oil Prospecting Lease, OPL310, offshore Nigeria.
The latest find, which has great potential to yield commercial oil, was made at Ogo-1 well after drilling 10,402 feet. The discovery has the potential to significantly boost Nigeria's oil reserve which currently stands at 37 billion barrels.
Afren Plc said it had drilled a well to a total measured depth of 10,518ft (10,402ft true vertical depth subsea), and had encountered a gross hydrocarbon section of 524ft, with 216ft of net stacked pay.
The firm added that the well was initially targeted to yield 78 million barrels of oil equivalent but based on evidence to date, targeted resources were likely to be significantly in excess of previous estimates.
The company said further evaluation using wireline log analysis was currently underway prior to extending the well to a total measured depth of 11,800ft (11,684ft true vertical depth subsea) to target further high potential zones.
"The Ogo-1 discovery, testing a four-way dipclosed structure in the Turonian, Cenomanian and Albian sandstone reservoirs, confirms the extension of the same Cretaceous sandstones that have yielded other significant discoveries along the West AfricanTransform Margin," the company said in a statement.
It added that: "Following the completion of drilling operations at Ogo-1, the partners intend to drill a planned side-track, Ogo-1 ST, which will test a new play of stratigraphically trapped sediments that pinch-out onto the basement high targeting 124 mmboe of gross P50 prospective resources."
The completion of exploration and eventual commercial production would be beneficial to not only the Federal Government but also other stakeholders, including Optimum, Afren and Lekoil that have different participating and economic interests in the oil block.
Specifically, participating interest in the block is Optimum on 60 per cent, Afren on 22.86 per cent and Lekoil on 17.14 per cent. Economic interest is Optimum on 30 per cent, Afren on 40 per cent and Lekoil on 30 per cent.
The Chief Executive of Afren Plc, Mr. OsmanShahenshah, said the discovery of oil in the Ogo-1 well opened up a new oil basin in an under-explored region and represented a possible extension of the West African Transform Margin.
According to Shahenshah, based on evidence to date, targeted resources are likely to be significantly in excess of previous estimates, with some highpotential zones still to be drilled.
He said: "We look forward to working with our partners to realise the full potential of Ogo and our additional prospects on the license.
"The Ogo-1 exploration success follows a series of recent discoveries, Okoro Field Extension, Ebok NorthFaultBlock and Okwok in Nigeria and Simrit-2 and Simrit-3 on the Ain Sifni Block in the Kurdistan region of Iraq."
Nigeria has not made significant oil and gas reserves in recent times as a result of low investment which is said to be a direct function of outdated legislations in the industry.
For instance, the Petroleum IndustryBill, PIB, targeted to make the industry more attractive to local and foreign investors, has been with the National Assembly in the last five years.
Consequently, many investors have gone to invest in other countries that offer competitive legislations, incentives and policies.
A top official of Stumberger confirmed at a recent industry conference in Lagos that many nations in the Gulf of Guinea, especially Angola, have attracted a lot of investments in the past few years.
This, according to him, has culminated in the making of commercial oil and gas finds that are capable of boosting reserves and ranking of Angola as a major producer.
The official tasked stakeholders, especially legislators, to make progress in order to complete work on the important bill targeted at restructuring the nation's oil and gas industry as well as attracting more investments to boost reserves as well as production capacity.
However, a Lagosbased lawyer, Mr. Emeka Okwuosa, said the new PIB was a step in the right direction, a watershed reform that would change the landscape of the oil and gas industry in Nigeria.
Okwuosa said the future was promising because the new PIB would be a good and excellent law, open up investment opportunities, unbundle the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, for better performance and result, and create a transparent, accountable and corruptfree energy regime.

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Deep Sea (Offshore) Drilling Oil Well Exploration

They are virtual cities stuck in the middle of some of the most dangerous seas on earth. Life on them is hard and fraught with danger from calamitous fires a.
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Drilling wells is one of the most important activities in the process of finding hydrocarbon reservoirs and producing oil and gas from these reservoirs to me.
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🇳🇬 Piracy in Nigeria | People & Power

Piracy in Nigeria - People & Power
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🇳🇬 Piracy in Nigeria | People & Power

Piracy in Nigeria - People & Power
The event followed a now familiar pattern: a small convoy of dusty 4x4 vehicles drove on to the edge of the airstrip at Galkayo in Puntland, north-central Somalia; armed security guards took up watchful positions nearby and a number of bemused-looking men stepped gingerly from the cars and lined up to have their photographs taken by the media.
On this occasion there were 11 of them; all had been hostages until that morning. They were sailors from a Malaysian cargo vessel that had been hijacked by Somali pirates a few years ago and held until a ransom was paid for their release.
One of them gave a brief account of what had happened. "On November 26, 2010 our ship was hijacked in the Indian Ocean. Their demand was 20 million. After that, they threatened the owner. You now increase money or we will shoot the crew. The owner didn't increase the money and then one Indian is shot with just three bullets. Then they hit us and tortured us. Tell your family to bring us money, otherwise we will kill you!"
The crew had been held for three and a half years but they were the fortunate ones. Five of their crew mates had died in that time. Now the survivors were going home and a UN plane with two envoys on board was flying in to see them to safety.
Such scenes have become relatively commonplace in Galkayo in recent times. Eighty percent of global trade is carried by sea and Somalia sits on a key maritime route linking Europe and Asia. More than 18,000 ships pass its shores every year. Over the past decade, Somali pirates, often former fishermen whose traditional livelihoods have been destroyed by foreign trawlers and toxic waste dumping, have attacked more than 300 vessels and kidnapped 700 people.
Faced with such a threat, the international community responded aggressively. In 2008, European states, the US and others began sending naval forces to these seas. They are still there today - warships, planes and helicopters patrolling thousands of square miles and doing a fair job of keeping the hijackers at bay. The UN and others have also played an increasing role in facilitating negotiations for the release of hostages - such as those set free at places such as Galkayo - for whose liberty large ransoms have been paid.
But if the problem is now slowly coming under control in Somalia, the same cannot be said for other parts of the world where piracy is on the increase. Lawlessness, desperation, poverty, greed and even political radicalism have brought the phenomenon to the waters of South America, Asia and, perhaps most aggressively, to West Africa.
In an effort to understand the reasons why, Bertrand Monnet, a French academic and filmmaker, has been travelling to piracy hot spots around the coast of Africa. In an extraordinary and very tense series of encounters, he came to face to face with heavily armed pirate gangs operating in and around the Niger Delta, where Nigeria's huge offshore oil industry, which employs thousands of expatriates, offers rich ransom pickings. It gradually became clear that piracy in West Africa has many of the same root causes as piracy in Somalia and elsewhere, not least of which is that those who don't share in the benefits and profits of global trade have ever fewer reasons these days to respect the security of those who do.
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On Focus on Ports we focus on Africa's growing offshore Oil and Gas industry. With exploration on the west coast of the continent growing exponentially with indications that Africa's East coast may follow suit, South Africa is strategically positioned to respond to the rig repairs and servicing of off shore oil rigs and drilling equipment. Focus on ports looks at infrastructure and investment needed to respond to this market demand.

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Nigeria's female oil tycoon

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First E&P nears development phase offshore Nigeria

The chief executive of FirstE&P, Ademola Adeyemi–Bero, says the private oil firm is preparing to development its offshore assets in Nigeria after more than two years of searching for opportunities. First E&P currently has an equity interest in 5 licences (and is operator is 4), but still needs to secure funding before it sees first oil. The two most significant blocks, in shallow water, are “excellent assets” according to the CEO, who is now working with Deutsche Bank to arrange debt and equity-type financing.

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Spill Prevention and Response in the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry

When it comes to the topic of oil spills, preventing them is our number one focus. However...

Spill Prevention and Response in the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry

When it comes to the topic of oil spills, preventing them is our number one focus. However, as an industry, we want to collaborate amongst other operators as well as with response organizations to make sure that we have a robust oil spill response regime.
Regularly throughout the year, operators conduct training on oil spill response with our vessel crews and the personnel that work offshore. Synergy is a great opportunity for us to come together and work collaboratively with other operators as well as oil spill response organizations.
Thanks very much for coming to the Synergy oil spill counter-measures exercise today. It’s a really important day for Suncor and all the other operators, and Suncor is hosting this exercise on behalf of Hibernia, Husky, and Statoil.
So, will they do a loop now, we got it in the water there, is that the idea?...Yep. Yeah, so what they’ll do is, the vessel will start to move, that’ll allow the boom to sort of open up and make that nice U-formation. Ah, and then they’ll deploy the skimmer out into the water.
Working collaboratively between the operators helps us ensure that our oil response programs are in place and are effective and that we learn from each other to make sure that best management practices are in place.
The Synergy exercise is important because it demonstrates our ability to deploy the equipment in a safe and effective manner. You don’t deploy oil spill equipment in five minutes. It’s a process that takes time to do it well and to do it properly. But that’s important to make sure that we don’t hurt anyone and that we’re able have equipment that’s going to be capable of responding in a spill.
In addition to demonstrating what we do, it’s also a great way for us to learn and that’s another tool for us to help us identify how we continuously improve our oil spill response capability here on the East coast. So, again, any suggestions you may have, please feel free to pass them along.
Oil spill response is a daily activity for us. Through regular training of vessel crews, maintenance of equipment and exercises and drills, it’s something we do on an ongoing basis to make sure that our people are capable of responding to an offshore spill.

Deep Sea (Offshore) Drilling Oil Well Exploration

They are virtual cities stuck in the middle of some of the most dangerous seas on earth. Life on them is hard and fraught with danger from calamitous fires a.
Animation of deepwater drilling.
Drilling wells is one of the most important activities in the process of finding hydrocarbon reservoirs and producing oil and gas from these reservoirs to me.
Auxillary Drilling Supervisor, Louise takes us through her daily life onboard the DeepseaMetro I drill ship. Louise overseas the team that make up the drill.

25:01

🇳🇬 Piracy in Nigeria | People & Power

Piracy in Nigeria - People & Power
The event followed a now familiar pattern: a small co...

🇳🇬 Piracy in Nigeria | People & Power

Piracy in Nigeria - People & Power
The event followed a now familiar pattern: a small convoy of dusty 4x4 vehicles drove on to the edge of the airstrip at Galkayo in Puntland, north-central Somalia; armed security guards took up watchful positions nearby and a number of bemused-looking men stepped gingerly from the cars and lined up to have their photographs taken by the media.
On this occasion there were 11 of them; all had been hostages until that morning. They were sailors from a Malaysian cargo vessel that had been hijacked by Somali pirates a few years ago and held until a ransom was paid for their release.
One of them gave a brief account of what had happened. "On November 26, 2010 our ship was hijacked in the Indian Ocean. Their demand was 20 million. After that, they threatened the owner. You now increase money or we will shoot the crew. The owner didn't increase the money and then one Indian is shot with just three bullets. Then they hit us and tortured us. Tell your family to bring us money, otherwise we will kill you!"
The crew had been held for three and a half years but they were the fortunate ones. Five of their crew mates had died in that time. Now the survivors were going home and a UN plane with two envoys on board was flying in to see them to safety.
Such scenes have become relatively commonplace in Galkayo in recent times. Eighty percent of global trade is carried by sea and Somalia sits on a key maritime route linking Europe and Asia. More than 18,000 ships pass its shores every year. Over the past decade, Somali pirates, often former fishermen whose traditional livelihoods have been destroyed by foreign trawlers and toxic waste dumping, have attacked more than 300 vessels and kidnapped 700 people.
Faced with such a threat, the international community responded aggressively. In 2008, European states, the US and others began sending naval forces to these seas. They are still there today - warships, planes and helicopters patrolling thousands of square miles and doing a fair job of keeping the hijackers at bay. The UN and others have also played an increasing role in facilitating negotiations for the release of hostages - such as those set free at places such as Galkayo - for whose liberty large ransoms have been paid.
But if the problem is now slowly coming under control in Somalia, the same cannot be said for other parts of the world where piracy is on the increase. Lawlessness, desperation, poverty, greed and even political radicalism have brought the phenomenon to the waters of South America, Asia and, perhaps most aggressively, to West Africa.
In an effort to understand the reasons why, Bertrand Monnet, a French academic and filmmaker, has been travelling to piracy hot spots around the coast of Africa. In an extraordinary and very tense series of encounters, he came to face to face with heavily armed pirate gangs operating in and around the Niger Delta, where Nigeria's huge offshore oil industry, which employs thousands of expatriates, offers rich ransom pickings. It gradually became clear that piracy in West Africa has many of the same root causes as piracy in Somalia and elsewhere, not least of which is that those who don't share in the benefits and profits of global trade have ever fewer reasons these days to respect the security of those who do.
Source: Al Jazeera
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Offshore Safety: The First Visit (Helicopter, Boat & Oil Platform)

For personnel's going offshore on an oil rig or platform. The BOSIET course is a minimum requirement to work offshore. The course consists of four modules; .
BOSIET stands for basic offshore safety induction and emergency training, a course created to assist in meeting the initial onshore safety training, emergency .
Helicopter landing on offshore oil platform.

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NEW AND EMERGING ROLES OF CUSTOMS: CUSTOMS REGULATION OF OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS INSTALLATIONS

In some countries, Customs administrations have a range of responsibilities relating to th...

NEW AND EMERGING ROLES OF CUSTOMS: CUSTOMS REGULATION OF OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS INSTALLATIONS

In some countries, Customs administrations have a range of responsibilities relating to the offshore petroleum industry and offshore petroleum installations. In fact, depending on the country's legal and administrative framework, offshore petroleum installations may fall under direct control of Customs, and Customs administrations can play important role in regulating offshore oil and gas installations and offshore activities. With the increasing number of offshore oil and gas platforms on the continental shelf areas around the world, their regulation is becoming a new area of responsibility for some Customs administrations, while Customs administrations or other border agencies that already have responsibilities in the regulation of the offshore petroleum industry may find that they have to devote more time and resources to it. This webinar provides an overview of the practical and legal issues of Customs regulation of offshore petroleum installations focusing on Australian law and practice.

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The production of crude oil - Black gold

It's hard to imagine a world in which oil doesn't play such a central role in global econo...

The production of crude oil - Black gold

It's hard to imagine a world in which oil doesn't play such a central role in global economics, with just about every industry critically dependent upon it and countries willing to wage war over this black gold. But things could so easily have turned out differently. While people may have been burning oil and using it as a lubricant for thousands of years, it was not until the motor industry took off about 80 years ago that oil started to become such a key player. Henry Ford's Model T, the first production-line car, was actually designed to run off alcohol-based ethanol, as well as oil-derived petrol. But thanks to the prohibition of alcohol in the US, petrol fuels prevailed.
In its raw form, oil consists of a black, viscous fluid made up of high concentrations of organic compounds originally derived from dead animal and vegetable matter, such as plankton, which have endured extreme geological processes over millions of years. When refined into hydrocarbon fuels, chains of carbon and hydrogen molecules, it becomes a useful fuel because it has such a high energy density, typically 10 times that of dynamite.
Part of our dependence on oil is due to the fact that a vast range of chemicals and materials are derived from it, including plastics, detergents, solvents and adhesives. However, many of these products could be manufactured synthetically. Where our real addiction to oil lies is in its use as a liquid fuel. There are plenty of other cleaner and more sustainable energy sources that could be used to power and heat our homes. But when it comes to transport, alternatives start to get tricky. This does not just come down to the high energy density of oil-derived fuels - after all, hydrogen fuel has an energy density roughly three times that of petrol. The problem is that we already have a multibillion-dollar infrastructure designed to produce, distribute and burn petrol.
Where does oil come from?
Despite the popular conception that oil exists in vast underground caverns, or wells, oil is in fact formed in porous, sponge-like rock formations. Before a well is tapped, the oil exists under immense pressure, meaning that when it is first drilled it forces itself out - essentially self-extracting. However, when the pressure eventually dips, the porous nature of the rock starts to play havoc with the extraction process, making a large proportion of the oil difficult to get out, or even gauge how much oil is in the well. In fact, even after using the most advanced extraction techniques, such as blasting high-pressure steam into the rock to force the oil out, no more than 40% of the oil is currently thought to be recoverable. With all the biggest known oil wells now thoroughly tapped, this poses a problem for the oil industry if it is to maintain oil recovery rates that can meet our still-growing demand. In light of this, the US is pumping tens of millions of dollars into research to find new ways to find and extract whatever oil is still out there. One idea is to pump novel nano-materials into wells to help loosen the oil's grip on the rock so it can more easily be extracted. Similarly, nano-sensors are also being developed that would be distributed into wells and interrogated from above ground to help map wells and find what oil is left.
But, inevitably, it will run out. Precisely when is a moot point, but some estimates say we have already reached peak oil production, while others say this won't happen until about 2030. With demand for oil rising by roughly 2% a year, increasing by up to 47% by 2030, it's hard not to assume we are driving into a major energy crisis. Desperate to keep productivity up, the oil industry is investing billions into extracting oil from more energy-intensive and costly sources such as tar sands and oil shales. Meanwhile, governments are investing in biofuel technologies, which make it possible to produce hydrocarbon fuels from feedstocks of crops such as rapeseed or maize. However, biofuels, although more sustainable than oil, are energy, land and water-intensive and carry a cost in terms of agricultural chemical pollution, and there is concern that it uses valuable land needed for producing food.
One solution, now being explored, is the use of solar energy to reverse the combustion process and produce hydrocarbon fuels from carbon dioxide sucked out of the atmosphere. .
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Nigeria's Oil Blocs Allocation And Regulatory Controversies Part 2

LoveWorldPlus TV: The procedure for awarding oil blocks in Nigeria has become urgent, give...

Nigeria's Oil Blocs Allocation And Regulatory Controversies Part 2

LoveWorldPlus TV: The procedure for awarding oil blocks in Nigeria has become urgent, given the current controversy over which section of the country controls majority interest in the oil industry. SenatorIta Enang caused a stir during the Senate session on March 6, 2013 when he alleged that 83 per cent of the oil blocks were owned by people from the northern part of the country. This, if true, could only have been possible in an atmosphere of arbitrariness, corruption and lack of transparency. Experts have advised that decisions on how oil and gas licenses are allocated to companies, need to be taken in a transparent orderly method to remove any risk of conflicts of interests. These are the issues we hope to analyze in this edition of The Agenda.

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HHG - OIL AND GAS BUSINESS IN NIGERIA

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Using e-cigarettes may lead to an accumulation of fat in the liver, a study of mice exposed to the devices suggests. “The popularity of electronic cigarettes has been rapidly increasing in part because of advertisements that they are safer than conventional cigarettes ... Friedman of Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles, California ... Circadian rhythm dysfunction is known to accelerate liver disease....

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On Sunday, the Total chief signed agreements with Adnoc to advance offshore partnerships in oil and gas ... “Total brings deep knowledge and understanding of Abu Dhabi's offshoreoil and gasfields, as well as specialist expertise and technology that will help accelerate the development of the giant Umm Shaif gas cap," Dr Sultan Al Jaber, Adnoc group chief executive said in a statement on Sunday....

Swire Oilfield Services, a global leading provider of Offshore Containers and oilfield services, has today developed its Norwegian operations with the opening of a new base facility in Mongstad...Currently, Mongstad is the largest offshore supply base in Europe, shipping more than 1 million t of goods and suppliers to over 20 installations in the North Sea....

Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy, is testing new grounds on import substitution for rice ...Nigeria’s economy decelerated to a 25-year low in 2016, after oil revenues collapsed, and officials have picked unwavering interest in the agricultural sector as the country attempts revenue This content is for Standard & PremiumDigitalSubscribers only....

It has become, for the government and its officials, a common refrain that Nigeria should grow what it consumes ...Netherlands total export earnings in 2016 stood at US$435 billion, about the size of Nigeria’s GDP and which is higher than the combined US$433 billion earned by all the members of OPEC in 2016, or the paltry US$28 billion that Nigeria earned from exports within the same period, 95% of which came from exports of crude oil....

Scientists, including one of Indian-origin, are developing a sensor that takes advantage of the metabolic process of bacteria to detect gas leaks or oil spills in real time ... The researchers are now testing bacteria that would elicit an adequately measurable cathode voltage while also being able to survive in a marine environment for the application of offshoreoil spill detection....

Investing offshore remains a hot topic of conversation, mainly because it enables you to diversify your portfolio and access market sectors and securities that are not available in South Africa. Before you take the plunge, however, make sure you understand your motivation for investing offshore, as well as the implications of your choices ... You should not view investing offshore primarily as a rand hedge....

ADES InternationalHolding (“ADES” or “the Company”), the London-listed company providing offshore and onshore oil and gas drilling and production services in the Middle East and Africa through its subsidiaries, announces today its full-year results for the year ended 31 December 2017 ... (Petrobel), while Admarine VIII was awarded a farm-in agreement with SuezOil Company (SUCO)....